For a few years in the 1980s, the "Miss America" song was silent during another contract dispute, and last year, the pageant played instrumental music instead for Laura Kaeppeler's crowning. This year, organizers could also choose to use another tune like "Look at Her" and "Miss America the Beautiful."

Wayne first wrote the song while sitting in a barber's chair in 1955. In that year's pageant, host Bert Parks sang it on the televised broadcast to winner Lee Meriwether. Before his death in 1993, Wayne also wrote the song "Blue Velvet," as well as many other familiar jingles, commercial tunes, and television and movie songs.

The reigning Miss America, Mallory Hagan, chats with the ladies of "The View":